Meitnerweg Grill-out

I just got back to my room and dried off from one of the coolest parties I've ever been to. It was mostly exchange students and there were people there from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece, England, Turkey and Mexico and I was the only American at the party. It started to rain even before most everyone arrived so we took the two grills around to the front of Meitnerweg and stashed them under the overhang to building 11. As more and more people came, we moved into the stairwell so everyone could stay dry but eventually our number got so large that the party had consumed the entire ground floor of the stairwell as well as the entire outside area protected by the overhang. The smoke was pouring into the building and we were loud as hell and I'm sure we were violating all kinds of rules by creating a major fire hazard as well as blocking the only exit from the building. But there are no smoke detectors in our flats (as we learned two months ago when Jose's almost burnt down) and our Hausmeister was out of town, so the party raged on until the lightning became wicked awesome flashes of purple that lit the sky seemingly constantly for five minutes straight and then the sky opened up and the hardest rain I've ever felt in my life poured down on Eichlinghofen for a good five minutes more. We danced outside until we were all thoroughly soaked and after having said good bye to the unfortunate souls who had to walk back to the S-Bahn, we at least attempted to tidy up Meitnerweg. But we failed. Paper plates and grilled corn-on-the-cob still litter the outside area of building 11 and empty beer and wine bottles still stand on the table that somehow found its way into the stairwell tonight.